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Transcript: Air Layering
You may have a house plant that's grown kind of tall. There's a way to rejuvenate those plants to bring them back and make them look good again, and that's by air layering.First, we begin by selecting a section of stem and, with a knife, cut all the way around the stem in two places about half an inch to an inch apart. Remove the bark from that section.
In response to this wounding, the plant will start to grow to a callous type tissue - it's like a scar tissue. And from that, roots can form.
Next, we take a piece of plastic. I like to take an old bread wrapper; it works quite well. Slice down the wrapper to open it up into a single sheet, then place it around the stem below the area where you exposed the wound. Take a twist tie and tie it around, attaching the wrapper tightly to the stem at the bottom
The next step is to fill this bowl you've created with some potting soil or peat moss. It helps to wet it first; it's a lot easier to handle. You want to form it around the wounded area, take another twist tie and wrap it around the top. Again, attaching it firmly and you're ready to go.
If your plant’s in an outdoor location, you may want to wrap aluminum foil around it to keep it from getting too hot. Within a few weeks, roots will start to form, and you’ll occasionally need to open the bag and re-moisten this mix.
Once you’ve got a good set of roots forming in the bag, you can cut the plant off below the rooted zone, and this top part becomes a new plant.
With your common sense tip on propagating a new plant by air layering, I’m Skip Richter.
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July 6, 2006